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Esports
A Team Who Has Barely Ever Played Rainbow Six Siege Made It Into The Latest Tournament
A group of students in Norway thought it would be funny to sign up to compete in Rainbow Six Siege, a game they’ve barely played, at one of the region’s biggest seasonal esports events, DreamHack Winter 2019. The stunt worked: Due to a shortage of signups for the event, Minigolfgutta (“mini golf boys”) will now…
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Esports
Halo 5‘s Best Teams Go Head To Head In The Last Major Tournament Of The Year
It’s a busy weekend for esports. Recently with these posts I’ve been trying to focus in on an interesting aspect of just one particular competition happening in the days ahead, but this week, there are too many events to choose just one. Halo 5. Heard of it? The game came out back in 2015 but…
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Esports
Valve Condemns Dota 2 Pros Making Racist Remarks But Calls On Teams To Regulate Themselves
Following a series of offensive remarks made by professional Dota 2 players recently, the game’s creator Valve has published a blog post condemning the behavior. In keeping with the company’s traditional approach of remaining mostly hands-off, however, it leaves the responsibility for sanctioning players strictly with teams, and didn’t offer any clear guidelines about how…
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Esports
The Best Team In Rocket League Is On The Hunt For Another World Championship
Team Dignitas won Rocket League’s season five championship earlier this year. It was not easy, though, requiring a long run through the lower bracket that culminated in a back-to-back best-of-seven series against NRG Esports. Despite a nail-biter in the final match after NRG tied things up 3-3 with what some have called the best goal…
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Esports
Eight Nations Face-Off In This Weekend’s Overwatch World Cup
In Overwatch, as in soccer, there’s annual league play and international World Cups. This weekend belongs to the second. Before OWL’s second season gets underway, teams from around the world will represent their nations at BlizzCon in the Overwatch World Cup. It’s one of the game’s most entertaining events for all the same reasons people…
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Esports
One Of Dota 2’s Newest Teams Has A Lot To Prove This Weekend
In its first major tournament since the annual International in August, competitive Dota 2 returns this weekend with a $300,000 event in Hamburg, Germany. Though China’s Team Aster came out on top of the group stage with only one loss, it’s now hanging on for dear life in the lower bracket. The days and weeks…
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Esports
Counter-Strike Pro Banned For Cheating, Now Regrets Ever Playing The Game
Nikhil ‘forsaken’ Kumawat is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who was caught cheating at a tournament last weekend. In a video that went viral, he was seen trying to close an aim-assist program open on his computer mid-match Now banned for five years from any Esports Integrity Coalition-affiliated tournaments, Kumawat says he regrets ever…
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Esports
16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique
Over the weekend, seven-time winner Jonas Neubauer showed up at the Classic Tetris World Championship in Portland, Oregon like he has every year since it moved there in 2011. Instead of adding another championship to his name, he finished in second place this time, bested by 16-year-old Joseph Saelee who went on an amazing three-game…
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Esports
League of Legends Coach Urges Underdog Teams To Play Their Own Style
The knockout stage of League of Legends’ biggest tournament of the year gets underway this weekend with only eight teams from across the globe left. One coach, whose team was recently sent packing after their loss earlier in the week, gave an impassioned speech to two of the remaining underdog European teams, encouraging them to…
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Esports
Two Saiyans Descend on Hearthstone‘s Fall Championship
Autumn began almost a month ago, but the weather here in the Northeast was slow to catch up. Today it did, however, with a swampy 80 degrees giving way to leaf-rustling winds and low 60s, just in time for this weekend’s Hearthstone Fall Championship. The pull of Dragon Ball Z continues to bend the rest…
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Esports
Madden Tournament Plans To Raise Money For Victims Of The Jacksonville Shooting
On August 26, a shooter at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida opened fire at the event, wounding 11 people and killing two, Taylor Robertson, 29, and Elijah Clayton, 22. This weekend, the organizers of Muthead, an independent Madden league, are holding a charity tournament to raise money for and honor the victims of the…
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Esports
Controversial Smash Player Banned From Several Events Under New Code Of Conduct
Ontario Super Smash Bros. Melee player Vikram “Nightmare” Singh has been banned from attending a number of Canadian tournaments after a friend described Singh’s alleged past sexual relationship with an underage girl and a supposed criminal charge that followed. The ban comes on the heels of several tournament organizers’ adoption of a Smash code of…
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Esports
Trash-Talking League of Legends Star Seeks His Fifth Title This Weekend
One of League of Legends’ biggest stars will have a chance to earn his fifth championship title at this weekend’s North American summer finals—and possibly cement his legacy as the continent’s best player of all time. Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng has been a central fixture of League of Legends in North America going back to 2011.…
By Ethan Gach
